... there is one point which has delayed the right conception and understanding of the evolutionary process for a long time. This was the idea that the older the morphological age of the human form is, the more it must approach the living anthropoids.This conclusion did not take into account that the big apes, too, must have undergone essential changes during the same period of time in which man evolved.WEIDENREICH, Apes, Giants, and Man, Chicago, 1946, p. 11/12.